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From Operating Table to Laboratory Bench: The Path Toward Metastasis Research from the Clinical Setting
Miguel E Alberto Vilchez1,2,3, Beate Rau4
1Department of Surgery, Campus Virchow Klinikum-Campus Mitte, Charité-University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Presence of metastasis translates unequivocally into worse prognosis for our patients. Translational medicine has been our response to offer patients better therapeutic options. This chapter aims to provide an overview for clinicians to send the necessary metastatic tissue on the right path toward the laboratory bench, overcoming biases and possible data misinterpretations derived from poor sample quality.
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